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Commander Roger Thompson RHRN.
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Commander Roger Thompson RHRN

Today we introduce one of the Principality's Officers in the Royal Hutt River Navy
Commander Roger Thompson RHRN

An internationally acclaimed author and professor with more than 10 years of teaching experience, Commander Roger Thompson, RHRN, is a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, an assistant professor at South Korea’s prestigious Kyung Hee University, one of the top ten universities in that country, and a former researcher with the Operational Research and Analysis Establishment at National Defence Headquarters (Canada). He is also a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, The Society for Military History, a donor to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund, The National Museum of the Royal Navy, the RCAF Memorial Foundation, a “Crew Member” of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, a Friend of HMCS Haida and a Member of the Ship’s Company of the Canadian Naval Memorial (HMCS Sackville). Commander Thompson also served as a reservist in the West Nova Scotia Regiment (Canada) when he was in high school.

He is an internationally respected expert on combat motivation, military sociology, regular/reserve total force issues, military culture, and military bureaucratic politics. His seminal work “Combat Motivation and Behaviour Among Naval Forces: A Discussion Paper” was endorsed by the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, SACLANT, CINCPACFLEET, best-selling novelist, submariner, and former Naval Aide to the President of the United States, the late Captain Edward L. Beach, U.S. Navy (Ret’d), and the German, Australian, Chilean, Italian, Canadian, New Zealand, and Spanish chiefs of naval staffs. He also received praise from senior officers of the French Navy, Republic of Korea Navy, and the Royal Navy among others. His work in this area was translated into Spanish under the authority of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armada de Chile, Admiral Jorge Martinez Busch. He received a medallion from the Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy, Admiral Guido Venturoni, for his contribution to military sociology, and his work has been acknowledged by General Colin Powell as well. In addition, Captain I.J. Jones, U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer of Long Beach Naval Station, was so impressed with Commander Thompson’s work that he invited him to attend the 1994 Long Beach Naval Station Disestablishment Ceremony.

Commander Thompson’s 1994 MA thesis Brown Shoes, Black Shoes, and Felt Slippers: Parochialism and the Evolution of the Post-War U.S. Navy was published as a 65-page book by the U.S. Naval War College in 1995, and again by the Mine Warfare Association in 1997 under the new title Brown Shoes, Black Shoes and Felt Slippers: Unions of the Post-War U.S. Navy. The first publication was heavily edited by the Naval War College, but the second edition was unedited, 150 pages long, and when Vice Admiral N. Ron Thunman, U.S. Navy (Ret’d), former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare, read Thompson’s manuscript in 1997, he was so intrigued by the topic that he immediately invited Commander Thompson to have lunch with him. That same year, The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis invited Commander Thompson to present a paper based on his book at the 13th Naval History Symposium, but sadly he was unable to attend.

 Professor Thompson’s second book, Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture was published by the Naval Institute Press in April 2007.

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Author: Roger Thompson

Brown Shoes, Black Shoes, and Felt Slippers:
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 Education

• 1994: M.A. in Political Science, Dalhousie University.

• 1991: B.A. (Honours Certificate) in Sociology, University of King’s College.

• 1989: B.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of King’s College.
  Awarded two merit-based King’s College academic scholarships (1987 and 1988).

• 1986: Diploma in Radio & TV Broadcasting (With Honours), Kingstec Community College.

Principality Appointments

 22^nd December 2005 

Roger Thompson was commissioned as Commander in the RHRN.

PROJECT:   Working closely with Admiral Sir Robert Hartnett, RHRN, on expanding and upgrading the Royal Hutt River Navy's Uniform Regulations and producing associated handbooks.

 

21^st April 2011

Commander Sir Roger Thompson KOWL., RHRN.
Elevated to Rank of Knight of the Order of Wisdom & Learning (KOWL)
PHR 41st Anniversary Honours list 21^st April 2011
 

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